25 August 25
A Visitor From The Grapevines
Last Wednesday (20 August) we got to admire this moth all day long when Pica discovered it resting on a t-shirt hanging on the laundry line out back. This is an achemon sphinx moth (Eumorpha achemon) in the family Sphingidae. Their caterpillars feed on wild and cultivated grapes. Its presence makes sense because we have grapevines along the fencing on two sides of our yard, though we have never observed a caterpillar in the vines. The moth left the t-shirt some time over the night.
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